What Are Yo Mama Jokes?
According to Wikipedia:
The term “the Dozens” is believed to refer to the devaluing on the auction block of slaves who were past their prime, who were deformed, aged or who, after years of back-breaking toil, no longer were capable of hard labor. These enslaved human beings often were sold by the dozen.
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An alternate history of the name is that the word “dozen” has nothing to do with the number twelve; that it is a modern survival of an Engish verb–”to dozen”–dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning “to stun, stupefy, daze” or “to make insensible, torpid, powerless.” The object of the game is to stupefy and daze with swift and skillful speech.
Just like Hip Hop, Yo Mama jokes have creeped into pop culture over the past 20 years in both movies and TV shows. Even though they are more readily identified with the African American experience, anyone who has MTV nowadays can see that they are certainly not limited to just African Americans anymore!
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